IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Just a reminder…We will have our Parent Meeting for March on Thursday at 6:30pm.  It will follow our Spring Open House for perspective families.  If you are able to come early for the Open House at 5:00 Mr. Smith is looking for volunteers!  Please email him at rwsmith@bsugmail.net or call the school at 226-4260.  Thank you!!

I am so excited to be back in the swing of things with the kids today!  I had a lot to share with them about the professional development trip to Portland, and I will be sharing some on the blog over the next few weeks!

Today we started a new unit in our Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop.  We began talking about retelling.  Over the next few weeks we are going to use fairy tales help us retell stories.  Today, during Writer’s Workshop, we used the book, The Little Red Hen.  The kids helped me point out the characters and the setting.  At the end of our book I encouraged them to possibly retell one of their own favorite stories.  I was so impressed to see how many kids took that suggestion and started writing about Goldilocks, The Little Red Hen, and more!

Dorothy is retelling the story of The Little Red Hen in Writer's Workshop.

Hi!  In our class right now, we are making space suits to go along with our space project.  We are hoping to “blast off” next week, but I do not sew or have a sewing machine to complete the space suits.  I was wondering if anyone out there could help us out by taking the space suits (22 in total) (they will be pinned and ready to go) on Friday after school and sewing them over the weekend.

We really appreciate any help as it will help us get even more in the spirit of blasting off!

Mrs. Bucher and Mr. Nored

Today we had a lot of conversations about trees!  I noticed yesterday that a lot of friends were looking through the tree books and asking about roots.  “What are those?”  “What do they do?”  Today, with the help of white roses, we talked a little bit about roots.  During morning meeting, we added food coloring to jars of water and put the roses in them.  As a class we made predictions about what might happen.  Tylisha said she had seen it before and the flowers were going to change colors!  Some of the other friends agreed, but a few are still skeptical.  Check back in the next few days to see what happens!

What do you think will happen to the white roses?

Selah's tree

This afternoon, we celebrated the warm day and went outside to do observational drawings of the trees.  It was interesting to hear what the kids had to say about their noticings.  Max noticed the bark, or as he called it “skin” on the tree.  Wyatt noticed the buds at the end of the trees.  Selah noticed all the different branches.  They were so observant!

Wyatt was busy working on his tree drawing.

Salih was very focused on his tree.